CELLS sentenced for illegal use of temporary contract at the Synchrotron

On the 19/9/2012, Sabadell's Social Court #3 ruled as unlawful the dismissal of our colleague S. (who worked at the Computing Division until the 30th of June 2011). The Judge considered that CELLS committed a fraud by hiring him illegally under a temporary "Work and Services" type of contract (see the court sentence). Now CELLS has desisted of presenting allegations and thus the sentence becomes final.

This is the second time that a worker takes legal actions against CELLS for illegal use of temporary "Work and Services" type of contract. In the first case, CELLS Management settled the case with the worker by offering a compensation of 39 days per worked year in exchange of avoiding the trial. In the second case, CELLS Management did not contact the worker or his representatives, thus forcing the trial to take place last June. The consequence is that, on top of a compensation of 45 days per worked year, the Judge also sentences CELLS to pay the salary of the worker from the day he was fired until the day that the court sentence was made public (about 75% of the final compensation). All in all, the worker will perceive more than 40000 euros, or about 22 times more than what he would have been paid had he not denounced his case.

It must be noted that by hiring workers in a fraudulent way, CELLS not only harms the rights of its employees, but also incurs in economic costs for which someone should take responsibility.